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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis

Testimony

Questioner: Ted CruzWitness: Mark Zuckerberg

Narrative: ConcealmentHarm: Child sexual exploitation
Q. · Question

Ted Cruz

A. · Response

Mark Zuckerberg

QuestionPresses for hard numbers (warning-screen display count, "see results anyway" click count) and asks what concrete follow-up action — verification, reporting — Instagram took when users clicked through the CSAM warning.

ResponseZuckerberg cannot answer the specific display/click-count questions, doesn't confirm any specific individual verification or reporting action was taken for these click-throughs, and pivots to Meta's aggregate 26-million-report NCMEC volume (more than the rest of the industry combined) as a general defense.